THE ATOM: Agreement to Talk

Behind guarded doors. Secretary of State
Dulles and Soviet Ambassador Georgi N. Zarubin sat down in Dulles'
rose-mauve-carpeted office for half an hour this week to talk about a
time, place and agenda for a conference on atomic questions.-The
Dulles-Zarubin meeting was a fruit of President Eisenhower's U.N.
speech proposing an atomic-material pool for peaceful uses. At first
the Russians had attacked the speech; then, sniffing free-world
approval of Ike's idea, they said they were willing to talk it over.
Dulles suggested a preliminary exchange of views in Washington, and
last week the Kremlin agreed. Two days later, the...